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| Title: | At the barriers : on the poetry of Thom Gunn / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joshua Weiner |
| ISBN: | 9780226890432 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226890449 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226890430 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226890449 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index. Content: Introduction -- In England / Eavan Boland -- All that you praise I take: a glimpse of the young Thom Gunn / Neil Powell -- Young Gunn: coming out fighting / Alfred Corn -- Existentialism and homosexuality in Gunn's early poetry / Clive Wilmer -- Gunn, Shakespeare, and the Elizabethans across the water / August Kleinzahler -- Thom Gunn: the plain style and the city / Keith Tuma -- Thom Gunn and Anglo-American modernism / Joshua Weiner -- From Ladd's Hill to Land's End (and back again): narrative, rhythm, and the transatlantic occasions of "Misanthropos" / Thom Gunn -- Versions of "Meat" / Joshua Weiner -- Gunn's "Meat": notations on craft in America / John Peck -- Summation and chthonic power / Brian Teare -- Our dionysian experiment: three theses on the poetry of Thom Gunn -- Of the world / Tom Sleigh -- Thom Gunn's new Jerusalem / David Gewanter -- Domains of ecstasy / Paul Muldoon -- Considering "Considering the snail" / Wendy Lesser -- Thom Gunn's "Duncan" / Robert Pinsky -- Coda: Thom Gunn, inside and outside. |
| Description: | xii, 329 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- In England / Eavan Boland -- All that you praise I take: a glimpse of the young Thom Gunn / Neil Powell -- Young Gunn: coming out fighting / Alfred Corn -- Existentialism and homosexuality in Gunn's early poetry / Clive Wilmer -- Gunn, Shakespeare, and the Elizabethans across the water / August Kleinzahler -- Thom Gunn: the plain style and the city / Keith Tuma -- Thom Gunn and Anglo-American modernism / Joshua Weiner -- From Ladd's Hill to Land's End (and back again): narrative, rhythm, and the transatlantic occasions of "Misanthropos" / Thom Gunn -- Versions of "Meat" / Joshua Weiner -- Gunn's "Meat": notations on craft in America / John Peck -- Summation and chthonic power / Brian Teare -- Our dionysian experiment: three theses on the poetry of Thom Gunn -- Of the world / Tom Sleigh -- Thom Gunn's new Jerusalem / David Gewanter -- Domains of ecstasy / Paul Muldoon -- Considering "Considering the snail" / Wendy Lesser -- Thom Gunn's "Duncan" / Robert Pinsky -- Coda: Thom Gunn, inside and outside. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Joshua Weiner. |
| Named Person: | Gunn, Thom |
| Year: | 2009. |
| Publisher: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2009004284; National Library: 014921891 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: PR6013.U65; Dewey No.: 821/.914 |
| OCLC No.: | 262429454 |
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